From PC Mag: Twitter will ban all ads from state-run news agencies after several Chinese government-controlled media outlets used them to promote content critical of the pro-democracy protests in Hong Kong.

"Going forward, we will not accept advertising from state-controlled news media entities...

From Forbes: Apple is in a continuing fight to keep the iOS platform secure, and it has made a mistake that has blown open the entire platform. This weekend it was revealed that Apple has been sloppy, and an old vulnerability that was patched over has been broken in the move to iOS 12.4, so it is...

From PC Mag: Reddit is experimenting with a live video-streaming feature. The Reddit Public Access Network (RPAN), which launched Monday, will let users across the world share live broadcasts and vote on the ones that deserve to be at the top of the rankings.

Reddit likened RPAN Snapchat or TikTok...

From CNET: Imagine the awestruck faces of your technorati friends when you whip out your new titanium Apple Card and -- gasp -- it matches your even newer Apple Watch! (You tilt your wrist subtly to bathe your buddies in the glow.) That's right, the next iteration of the Apple Watch, the Apple Watch...

From CNET: Several tech CEOs committed on Monday to invest in their employees and support the communities they operate in. Alongside the leaders of dozens of major businesses, the CEOs of Apple, Amazon, AT&T, IBM and Salesforce signed onto a document that outlined the "purpose of a corporation" and...

From ComputerWorld: Microsoft has focused its Windows 10 attention on upgrading hundreds of millions of machines before they lose rights to security updates in three months.

From June 26 to July 25, the portion of all Windows 10 systems running the May 2019 Update, a.k.a. 1903 in Microsoft's four...

From The Verge: A fast-acting hacker could be able to weaken the encryption of Bluetooth devices and subsequently snoop on communications or send falsified ones to take over a device due to a newly discovered vulnerability in the standard.

The vulnerability is pretty clever: instead of directly...

From Tom's Hardware: Nvidia announced that its business’ finances are now back to normal after the company was hit by a decline in cryptocurrency mining and a slowdown in the data center business over the past year. The company posted 17% revenue growth to $2.58 billion, mostly helped by a 24%...

From TechCrunch: Twitter is testing a new way to filter unwanted messages from your Direct Message inbox. Today, Twitter allows users to set their Direct Message inbox as being open to receiving messages from anyone, but this can invite a lot of unwanted messages, including abuse. While one solution...

From PC Mag: Apple recently beefed up its bug bounty program with a $1 million prize, but don't go using Corellium's mobile device virtualization service trying to win it. Apple is suing the company for the creation of "perfect replicas of Apple's devices to anyone willing to pay."

As Bloomberg...